[Info-vax] Micro Focus to be acquired by Open Text

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-08-31, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2022-08-31 kl. 23:32, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> 
>> I always liked Reflection.
>> 
>> But the reality today is that putty is good enough for most.
>> 
>
> Sure. But Reflection was still "better"... :-)
>
> Putty lacks the 7-bit national character sets.
> Both Reflection and Extra can handle those.
>

But haven't we moved on from this in the same way as we have moved on
from requiring DEC keyboards instead of PC keyboards to access VMS
systems ?

Shouldn't VMS systems be generating code sets that are compatible
with how code systems work today, not how they worked 30+ years ago ?

How do the Nordic special characters get represented in the 7-bit
character sets anyway or do they use 8-bits for some of the characters ?

I can't think of any Swedish places with any special characters, but
how would the following places have been represented in the old days ?

	Flåm
	Bodø

In ISO-8859-1, the special characters in the above are encoded as 8-bit
characters (and are broken as expected when displayed using UTF-8 :-)).

What positions would the special characters above have occupied in the
old days ?

For the benefit of anyone whose terminal emulator messes up the above,
this is a dump/record of the file I created with those above examples:

Record number 1 (00000001), 5 (0005) bytes, RFA(0001,0000,0000)

                         6D E56C4609 .Flåm........... 000000

Record number 2 (00000002), 5 (0005) bytes, RFA(0001,0000,0008)

                         F8 646F4209 .Bodø........... 000000

Simon.

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